Corner building block



' G. EY

CORNER BUILDING BLOCK Filed Sept. 17, 1925 WITNESSES INVENTOR fwflaw I GIBJYJTAV EY l atentecl June 1,

UNITED STATES GUSTAV EY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORNER BUILDING BLOCK.

Application filed September 17, 1925. Serial No. 57,006.

This invention relates to a corner building block.

The general object of this invention is the provision of a simple and durable corner block.

A further object concerns the provision of a corner block which is an improvement of my U. S. Patent 1,467,929, entitled, Building block, dated September 11, 1923.

A further object concerns the provision of a block so designed as to provide end grooves of sutficient size to facilitate the handling of the block and also to serve as a passageway for reinforcing elements.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings of which Figure 1 is a plan view of the block;

Figure 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an end elevation of the block;

Figure 4 is a plan view of a pair of blocks disposed in a manner in which they are used to form a corner construction.

In the preferred form of the invention 25 shown in the drawings the block comprises side walls and 11; joined together at one end by an end wall 12. Intermediate their length the walls 10 and 11 are connected by a web member 13. The side walls extend beyond the web member on all sides, thus forming a unit in which a channel is pro vided encircling the web member. Integral with the side walls 10 and 11 and the web 1.3 are bracing members 14:, 15 and 16 and 17. These bracing members are of triangular cross section and extend the length of the web. The width of each bracing memher is equal in length to the web. Theirends lie in the same plane, a plane which extends at right angles to the outer, faces of the walls 10 and 11. The inner faces of the side walls 10 and 11, preferably at the ends opposite the end wall 12 are divergent, as shown at 18 and 19 as they continue outward from the web and bracing members.

A block of this type with the bracing members and the web constructed as above described is very convenient in building since, by breaking away an end of either of the side walls along the line of juncture of the bracing members, with the side walls a rectangular opening is provided for receiving a beam.

Another advantage is the opening 20 formed between the side walls, the end wall and the web. These openings are of ample size to permit the block to be grasped in the hand and also to act as a passageway, which can be alined with the corresponding passageways of similar blocks to receive rein- 0 forcing elements.

As shown in Figure 4: a reinforcing element 21 runs through the alined portions of the openings 20 of the superposed blocks.

lVhat I claim is 65 A building block comprising side walls, an I-shaped web joining the side walls, said web terminating short of the ends of the side walls and an end wall connecting the side walls at one end thereof, whereby an opening is formed which extends completely across between the side walls, the end wall and the end of the web member, the other end of the block being open.

- GUSTAV EY. 

